DADYERO

[neilborders]

Yeah we've had various things that work. She just hasn't acted like she's in much pain. Mainly just drooling a lot and not sleeping good.

Of course the sleep problems might be unrelated to teething. The staying up later might be because it's not getting dark until later. No real explanation for why she's waking up much more often, though.

 

[-LEK-]

Little boy has pneumonia in right lung.

Oh no man, thats terrible. Prayers man, that has to suck.

 

[anthonys735]

Yeah we've had various things that work. She just hasn't acted like she's in much pain. Mainly just drooling a lot and not sleeping good.

Of course the sleep problems might be unrelated to teething. The staying up later might be because it's not getting dark until later. No real explanation for why she's waking up much more often, though.

We basically have his room blacked out. Very little light can get in unless the shades are open.

 

[krazykats]

Teething babes:
We got these little nets with a clasp where you put frozen fruit inside. Like a frozen strawberry ring pop.
Jockstrap jr. digged it.

Make sure you clean that thing good. We had that too but there is a crevice or two where food got and rotted out. My wife freaked and wanted to complain and "take it public" even though our little dude didn't get sick.

They say a woman scorned.......BS........mess with a mothers 6 month old baby, I dare ya!

We tried everything but oragel. Somewhere on the Internet the wife found out that it could harden the gums make it teething worse. Not sure either way, but oragel was out.

 

[krazykats]

Yeah we've had various things that work. She just hasn't acted like she's in much pain. Mainly just drooling a lot and not sleeping good.

Of course the sleep problems might be unrelated to teething. The staying up later might be because it's not getting dark until later. No real explanation for why she's waking up much more often, though.

Teething makes them eat less too, so not only do their teeth hurt their Bellys do too.

 

[JamesIII]

Mother's Day is coming up, what gifts are you giving your wife? I'm thinking a picture of our daughter, flowers, and a card with her hand print on it (she's 18 months btw). One of my co-workers was stunned that I had nothing planned, but for me, Mother's Day has always been about my Mom. Anyhow, is that suitable?

 

[B Rax_rivals210137]

Somewhere along the way Mother's Day became Valentine's Day 2. Only you also have to get your mom something. It's ridiculous but whatever.

I have no clue what I'll get my wife. She's impossible to shop for. Doesn't drink, so no wine or anything, Hates chocolate, doesn't care about flowers, doesn't like when I pick out clothes for her. She's the worst. I'll probably get her a card figure something lame out last minute like usual.

 

[BernieSadori]

Beanie Weenies and a chicken patty.

YuP, DADYERO!

 

[neilborders]

Getting my wife a large canvas print picture of the kiddo. Being her first Mother's Day I'll probably throw in flowers and a card.

 

[krazykats]

Nothing!

 

[robvio]

Finding this thread and reading through it makes me miss my kids being in the infancy stages. It also makes me feel incredibly old. 15 years ago I was changing diapers on my little girl and not sleeping worth a darn. She was 11 pounds 13.5 oz. at birth. 23.5 inches long. Chick came into the world ready to eat. Slept for about 45 minutes at a time. Drank 6-8 ounces, napped for that 45 and back up for more. 6 months before we saw anything over about 3-4 hours. The struggle was real, y'all.

The boy was a couple weeks early and came out 9 pounds 13.5 ounces, 21.5 inches long. He loved to eat but sleeping was easier for him (thankfully). Had reflux early but the boppy pillow (I'm guessing that's the right spelling) was life saver. Keep the boy sleeping upright and life was good.

While I don't envy the sleepless nights, I miss them everyday.

Congrats to all of you fine folks learning this parenting thing. Doesn't get easier but it sure is a lot of fun.

 

[robvio]

Mother's Day is coming up, what gifts are you giving your wife? I'm thinking a picture of our daughter, flowers, and a card with her hand print on it (she's 18 months btw). One of my co-workers was stunned that I had nothing planned, but for me, Mother's Day has always been about my Mom. Anyhow, is that suitable?

Pictures, man. Always a winner.

 

[BernieSadori]

Best decision we made with our second kid was to not give her a pacifier. Never sucked her thumb either.

 

[robvio]

are you and your wife ****in 7 feet tall and 4 bills each? Goddam.

That's some Bill Brasky ****.

6 feet for me, 5 feet for the wife. Kids were an anomaly. C-section for both of course, and thankfully.

I haven't reached anything close to 4 bills, but these Oreos aren't going to help my avoidance. :sunglasses:

 

[anthonys735]

Best decision we made with our second kid was to not give her a pacifier. Never sucked her thumb either.

Sleep lady had us pull that sucker immediately. So he's been without it since month 6. Didn't seem to mind.

 

[krazykats]

Well I've reached my boiling point as a dad. My 6 yr old has come home for weeks and told us how a group of 3 kids picks on people in his class and is now picking on my son. Essentially his mom is on a no fight kick, which I was fine with but apparently today when the "bully" kid from the Trailor park tried to take my 6yr olds drink he didn't get it and spit on my son.

Enough! I was never bully badass by any means but usually people didn't mess with me. And now it's time to teach my son when it's OK to fight and when it isn't. I can't wait really since he is the biggest kid in the class and has been nice and is a timid type personality.

Anybody else run into this in kindergarten? Probably just a Bullitt county thing I guess but I figure I'll call first thing in the morning and explain my stance and what I've instructed my son to do if this kid continues.

Only time I remember having any issue was at Sanders Elementary in PRP when a kid and I fought all the time because we were in same class and youth league sports. They made our parents come to school and sat us together and confronted the issue. But so far all the teacher does is give the "bully" a clip down on their clip system. Which I assume is like my old check mark system......3 checks and your at the principals office.

 

[robvio]

Most schools have a zero tolerance for bullying. Makes sure it addressed.

 

[krazykats]

It's happened for weeks and it started with him telling us about the other kids a few months ago, but he has mentioned about a month ago the kid was trying to take his lunch etc. since then it's become him and his friends pick on kids who "clip up" for good things. The teacher has been told to the point these kids spit in my sons face and called him a tattle tale.

So it's done, my son can't start the fight but if that kid does it again Chic FIL a has been offered by me for defending himself and Papaw offered ice cream too. A punch to the nose and a shove to the ground just defend yourself from this Trailor park trash.

 

[buckethead1978]

3 weeks or so to summer break. Let the teacher know about the spitting. 6 is a little young for those kind of life lessons

 

[bradyjames_rivals]

Lol, schools with zero tolerance for bullying? Get real. They sweep it under the rug and won't do anything. If your kid goes to school there is always some ahole kid that causes trouble. We have two rules when it comes to bullying. (1)If I ever catch you bullying anybody I am going to rain down hell on you like you have never felt before. (2) If it is absolutely neccesary and they won't stop harassing you........ be first, put all your weight behind the first one and throw punches in bunches. Win or lose they will leave you alone.

The whole wait until you have been punched thing is dumb.

 

[krazykats]

He knows how to fight, but he doesn't like to. He and his little brother fight non stop but little brother really gets the best of him until he is just sick of it and beats the hell out of him like a big brother should.

He is so scared to get in trouble in school I had to bribe him with his favorite chic FIL a if he defends himself. He knows not to walk in class and fight but whatever at this point.

I do agree it's too early, but that is because the teacher should have already rained this little pos in and straightened him out. At 6 being a nerd and happy is all school is about.

Well the call will be made and the teacher and office people(who I know personally and love our family) will know what's up and what my son has been instructed to do. So the ball is in their court. If nothing else separate this kid from my child or he will face the bully.

Kindergarten teaches have assistants so it can't be too much for them to police.

 

[B Rax_rivals210137]

6 is too young to tell your kid to whoop someone's ***. Has this kid been physical with your son? Spitting is bad and all but kids do gross **** like that. He should be punished for it but it doesn't carry the same connotations as an adult spitting on another adult. I'd just talk to your kid about how some kids act out because they don't get enough attention from mom and dad and use it as a lesson for your son and how bullying can make people feel like ****. Save the fist fighting for when he's older.

 

[krazykats]

I'm not saying your wrong, not even close. But he has told the teacher several times and this kid has taken his drink at lunch multiple times, has spit in his face, and apparently has 2 other tag partners that pick on kids that do good and go home each day with high praise by the clip system. We reward our some every Friday night with whatever he wants for dinner and or movie/puzzle fundome or go karts etc. the last 3 weeks he has been off the charts daily as go karts have now become an option and it has progressively gotten worse and he tells the teacher.

My problem is they aren't doing jack clearly and this little runts parents aren't getting the message on his daily reports of they don't care or both.

Ive just had enough, and teaching my son to defend himself is different than teaching him to whoop ***. It's clearly going to take something drastic and maybe the teacher will have insight when I call first thing in the am.

I hate the idea of private school because Bullitt county public for elementary is very good in the whole state. But I've spoke with family and their kids aren't facing this in private schools.

We will see.

 

[buckethead1978]

Also, email the teacher and CC the principal and vice principal with the issues. A paper trail is your best friend when dealing with public organizations.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

Bucket and Bryan Rax are right. Too young to get the points across to your son. You tag the right people on an email with "bully" in it, it will get traction.

I can tell you are putting a lot of heart into the topic but may be overanalyzing it a bit given the age group (which I have one of as well). You're talking about an age that everyone including the bully's thoughts go from spitting to Ironman to ice cream all in 2.5 seconds.

 

[bradyjames_rivals]

Ours are twelve. At the age of six it's a different story. I can assure you that most of us have been in your shoes. When they come home shower them with love and explain most who do that have issues at home. Let them know you are there for them.

 

[joeyrupption]

Get your kid to recruit some tag team members of his own and teach them to do the Bushwhackers walk around the bully team. No punches will need to be thrown.

 

[krazykats]

Talked to the teacher and a counselor this morning. Glad I did and hope everything smoothed over. Even the teacher said she can understand as a parent that is frustrating but my 6 yr is too nice and outgoing to do what I asked. I agreed and doubt he will go through with it, but hopefully he won't have to now.

I was just pissed yesterday to come to that and all my child is worried about is getting in trouble, so his momma must have raised him right.

 

[cat_chaser]

- at 9 months old, I'd bet it's a teething issue if they aren't sleeping well. That and ear infections were the cause of all our sleeping issues.

- tough spot with the bullying issue. Last year my oldest (2nd grade at the time) finally stood up to one - who also happened to be one of his friends - and they got into a "fight" during lunch (kid tried to shove him over and sit in my son's seat. He raised his hand to let someone know and the other kid smacked his hand down). It got physical after that.

While this particular incident wasn't the worst of it, he had finally reached a boiling point (other kid - and his family- are the type who think he is God's gift to the athletic world).

The good: he isn't friends with that ******* anymore.
The better: that kid hasn't bothered him anymore.

- Speaking of God's gift to the athletic world; my 8 year old hit a two out, 3-run walk-off BOMB last night. One of the coolest moments I've had as a parent. He looked like Joe Carter rounding the bases after his World Series walk off.

 

[krazykats]

The better: that kid hasn't bothered him anymore.

And that's the goal. Bully's take advantage of good kids, well I just taught mine to be bad, sue me or teach your kids better.

Hopefully my kid can go back to being good and nothing comes of this.

 

[80 Proof]

I'm not going to deal well if/when the bullying thing comes up with my kid. I was never the bully, but I was always getting in fights at school. I went to a podunk little country school where it was just part of life though. No real bullying I guess, but always harmless scrapping and rough housing.

Little man hopefully doesn't get bullied too much though. Pretty sure he's going to be the biggest kid in his class. He's suprisingly strong for a 12 week old too.

 

[robvio]

Man, the sports thing will make you the proudest parent on the planet. The day my kid scored his first touchdown, I could've died right there.

Life is full of cool moments with kids.

 

[krazykats]

So haven't had an issue at all since addressing it with the teacher.

The wife is having pregnant issues so I had to chaperone a 3 hour zoo trip, no problem. The teacher talked to me a little bit about what she has noticed and basically most kids parents quit sending lunches except Matthew and they all want his food over school lunch.

Oh well little dude handled it like a pro and has brought home the best daily report he could possibly get since.

So he will be rewarded with his basketball goal this week!

 

[B Rax_rivals210137]

I went on a field trip with my oldest last week to Salato Wildlife Center. It's like a zoo for animals native to Kentucky. Anyway, my son decides he's going to race one of his buddies right in front of the bear pen. This is a great idea. One of his shoes falls off and his buddy picks it up and tosses it like a hot potatoe into the damn bear cage. I'm just standing there like wtf kid lol so me and my shoeless son walk around for a bit looking for an employee. Eventually we found one at the front freaking desk and told her what happened. They looked at me like I was a crazy person when I explained what happened, but they were nice and told me that it takes a very long time to put the bear put away and that it'd be a few days before they could retrieve the shoe. So we spend the next 45 minutes wandering around a wildlife park half shoeless like a couple of woodford county idiots. Long story short, a nice man with a fishing pole was able to get the shoe back and we had a very cool time.
Salato wildlife center - 5 stars

DAD BUY OF THE WEEK: Idk about y'all but around here all the youth baseball players wear those braided energy necklace things. I looked them up and they are approximately $30 for one, which seems like a high profit margin. I did some research and found a pack of 10 for $13 on Amazon prime. Almost enough for the entire team. Definitely recommend if you have kids that are into those things.

And yes, like robvio said above, watching your kids excel at sports is really, really awesome. My oldest has always been extremely shy. To the point where last year he bawled like a baby at his first ever at-bat. When he got to first he was sobbing uncontrollably. This year he damn near struts to the plate and cranks one to the fence every trip. And he's fielding like a boss at first base, too. He absolutely loves it. It's a lot of fun. But he's also started reading, which absolutely blows my mind. I can't lie to him as easily anymore, and that's frustrating. Me:"Sorry kids, that sign says toys r us is closed because someone puked everywhere"
Illiterate 4 yr old: "well dang. Hope they get that cleaned up"
Literate son:"No it doesn't dad it says 'captain America toys for cool little boys'"
Me: :grimace:

 

[joeyrupption]

I did some research and found a pack of 10 for $13 on Amazon prime.

I feel like a sucker for buying anything but groceries "in real life" at this point.

I broke down and bought some ankle socks and boxers (banal tartan, various - Dad style) at Target on Saturday and have felt like a real ******* ever since.

 

[buckethead1978]

Subscribe and Save and the Amazon dash buttons have me questioning the grocery part even further,

 

[B Rax_rivals210137]

Click List is awesome but once they start delivering it'll be game over. How will wal mart even survive oh yeah never mind

 

[funKYcat75]

Walmart is working on implementing a click list sort of deal too. I can't imagine Walmart employees getting an order completely correct, though

Personally, I like going to the grocery (alone). It is a nightmare with the whole family.

 

[joeyrupption]

Our Click List has a four day wait, so we've yet to use it.

 

[krazykats]

Does your wives not handle the grocery? Maybe I'm old school here but it seems to me if you're the one cooking then you should be the one getting the groceries too!